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• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of ... things, you get a community of igloo-building, solar

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the absence of any real comparable seasonal changes, are idealized and heavily

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of 2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30 innovators under the age of 30 for each of 15-20 industry categories. The Tech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... profiles" -- lists of traits and behaviors that are associated with job

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media, cofounder of Global Voices and MediaCloud, and board member for Ushahidi and ... of diversifying your sources of media:     Ethan and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... was built for a cruising airspeed of about 70 mph, but it still took the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The ... , seeing everyone and feeling the ENERGY here. But before I get too ahead of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  Advising is actually an academic subject worth 6 units of credit and has ... of the advising seminars offered. The official title is 21M.123 FASAP ... scene at MIT but also that of Boston. Apart from the 2-hour weekly meeting

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  The dust settles. We the class of 2012 waged epic battle tonight ... results of the class sweatshirt design contest.* In that email, they also ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  dancing awkwardly under the watchful eye of your teacher chaperones (“Sally ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the ... few months of MIT are tough for most seniors – we are torn between our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  the first day of classes, but before I get into that, we have some ... was part of the packaging of my brand new awesome laptop): OK, I find ... come grocery shopping? That way you can buy lots of big, bulky things and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked ... you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... unmatched, playing copious amounts of redactle with Nora, making sure I am not

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014